Wednesday, April 4, 2012

04/04/12 jive

Good evening, it's Wednesday, April 4th, and
this is the Jive at Five, WESU's Daily community calendar and run down of night
time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown. Thanks for making WESU your
listener supported source for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public
affairs and free-form community radio. I’m Bill Denert, producer and host of
Thursday nights Evening Jazz where "hearing is the best experience."
Thanx for tuning in!

At Wesleyan on Wednesday, until 6pm, you can view the talents of the seniors in
the Art Studio Program of Wesleyan's Department of Art and Art History on
display in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery.

This Thursday from 6:30-9 p.m, Middlesex Community College in Middletown hosts
the stage production of “Are You Now or Have You Ever Been,”. Performed
by the Middletown-based theater troupe Vintage Players, this production is
based on the transcripts from hearings following investigations on real and
suspected communist members in Hollywood. This free event is open to the
public and will be held in Chapman Hall, second floor, room 808 C & D

Thursday evening at 7pm in Wesleyan’s Memorial Chapel, you can catch a
senior music recital by Noah Heau entitled "Block Ice, Bach &
Beethoven." It is free and open to the public. For more information about
all Wesleyan University arts happenings, visit wesleyan.edu/cfa

Thursday night in Middletown AT THE BUTTONWOOD TREE on Main Street,, its
Bob Gotta’s, long running acoustic open mic with 6:30 sign up, 7:00 start.
Friday evening at the Buttonwood, it's Joe Flood and the Lost Wandering Blues
& Jazz Band at 8pm, and Saturday the Sinan Bakir Jazz Trio takes the
Buttonwood stage at 7:30pm. Sunday night, its a new Open Mic at the Buttonwood
that will be filmed in its entirety to be aired on Comcast TV. Only those who
agree to be viewed on TV should perform, and all are welcome. For more
information about all Buttonwood Tree events, call 860.347.4957 or go to www.buttonwood.org

Thursday, at Toads place in New Haven, PRODIGY OF the legendary hip hop group
MOBB DEEP, takes the stage, with Duece Bug and Rowdy City. Friday Toad's hosts
BADFISH, A TRIBUTE TO SUBLIME, and Saturday brings BEYOND THE WALL: THE
ULTIMATE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE. Tickets and more at www.toadsplace.com

Friday at 7:30pm herein Middletown, Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater on
Washington Street presents "Thank You for Flushing My Head in the Toilet
and Other Rarely Used Expressions info online at www.oddfellows.org

Now here's a rundown of what's going on in the world of cinema off the
beaten path here in central Connecticut this week.

Through Thursday, Real Art Ways in Hartford, is showing “Salt of Life”
about an aging guy who questions why all of the passion seems to
have disappeared from his life. This weekend, Real Art Ways shows “The
Forgiveness of Blood”, telling the story of an Albanian teen whose life is suddenly
turned upside-down when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute
that starts a blood feud. More can be found online at realartways.org

At Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford, The film “Albert Nobbs”
is playing through tonight. In this film, Glenn Close portrays a woman in 19th
century Dublin who lives in fear that her impersonation of a shy man named
Albert Nobbs will be revealed. Friday and Saturday, The Artist, a silent film
shot in luminous black and white, follows the seismic changes of late 1920s’
Hollywood, as a silent film star falls from grace with the arrival of the
talkies. More can be found online at cinestudio.org

This month The South Asia Film Series:” PhoolanDevi and the Roots of
Indian Rage” at Wesleyan’s Center for Film Studies presents four films
exploring issues around Phoolan Devi, aka the Bandit Queen a radical activist
turned politician who rose to fame in India in the 1970s and was ultimately
assassinated in 2001. This Thursday at 8pm you can catch the biopic film “The
Bandit Queen”. The film will be preceded by a performance from a Sri Lanken
composer featuring sections of her Phoolan Devi oopera. There will also be a
discussion with a History professor following the screening. Saturday at 2pm
you can catch “Sholay” one of Bollywood’s greatest action/adventure films on
the subject. All of these screenings are free and open to the public at
Wesleyan’s Cinema.

Now stay tuned, here's what's playing on WESU tonight:

From 5:05 to 6pm it's The Needle Drop with Anthony Fantano
An hour of the latest and greatest in the world of independent rock, pop,
electronic, and experimental music out there today.

From 6 to 6:30pm it's Free Speech Radio News From The Pacifica Network
Your daily dose of alternative international news and reporting from the
Pacifica Network.

Starting at 6:30 and running until 8pm it's Fusion Radio with James Fusion
Techno from around the globe mixed live since 1992. It's a vinyl world!

From 8 to 9:30pm it's The Warehouse with Mike Nyce
The best of underground house music, mixed live for your listening pleasure.

From 9:30-11pm it's The Vault with DJ Anton Banks
On the air since 1995! Presenting listeners with the very latest in underground
electronica on vinyl format, so the music can be heard as it was intended.
Regularly featuring exclusive sets from international producers and DJs.

At 11pm-1230am, it's Word…Life Radio with H Biz & B Fiz
Early 90's hip-hop is the focus here, with the occasional touch of punk, funk,
reggae and soul.

In the wee hours from 2-3am it's The Postman Express Hour with DJ JD, DJ
MacChillin, & DJ Jack 3 DJs give their take on a specific "post"
genre, be it post-folk jangling, post-psychedelic, post-rock, post-punk, any
other post. Exploring jarring, weird and stimulating new music, and placing it
in a historical context.

From 3-4am, it's Search and Recover with DJ Cheshire Cat
Search and Recover scours the world of music to find as many versions of a
single song as possible. Join the exploration of the modern musical standards!

The BBC World News kicks on at 4 and we begin tomorrow's programing at 5am with
Morning Edition from NPR.

That’s all for today’s Jive at Five, if you didn’t get a chance to write down
some of the information mentioned in our community calendar, the script is
published online at jiveat5.blogspot.com (the five is the number five), and if
you know of any events that you'd like to have announced on the Jive, send them
to jive@wesufm.org

If you tune in to WESU for information and music that you can’t find elsewhere,
then we are counting on you to help support the service you depend on.
Please take a moment to make a donation of any size online at www.wesufm.org, every dollar
counts and we need to hear from you. Now stay tuned for The Needle Drop.